Each Abrahamic religion builds on the last, but disregaurdes the previous as false, which is true?

Question

If we follow the pattern of the "True" religion being the last one reveled, then Baha'i should be the one True religion. But if The Divine is indeed omniscient and infinite, would It not have gotten it right the first time with Judaism? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

How would you build a true religion on a false religion? They are equally false.

Answer 2

This question seems a bit absurd to me really. I mean the Bahai faith was not revealed. If it was revealed - who revealed it but some person claiming to have special knowledge or insight. The divine is indeed omischient and infinite and He did get it right the first time with Judaism - after all they are God's chosen people. Or do you think it's by random chance that they survive persecution after persecution and the holocaust and miraculously became a nation in 1948? The bible is the only book that predicted this and so many other prophecies that have come true. God chose the Israelites and they rejected Him - never the less many of the Jews do turn to God today thanks to the fact that God came to us because all religions seek to find God - but if He has come to us - that's not religion - it's God personally seeking a relationship with each individual including the Jews and the Gentiles. The Jews are close to His heart and the apple of His eye. I think you should read through the entire NIV translation of the bible - and then make a judgment call on whether or not true Christianity disregards Judaism. Judaism is Christianity concealed and Christianity is Judaism revealed in full. Jesus fulfiled the law and the prophets. He did not nulify them.

Answer 3

Considering that the first, Judaism, says that the messianic prophecies have not being fulfilled; that in the second, Jesus plainly stated that he is the Only way; The third, Islam, states that Jesus had it wrong and Muhammad had it right but that Jesus was still a prophet; and the fourth, Baha'i says that all religions are a path, I'd say that they are contradictory and mutually exclusive, and that the only one that stands a chance of being right is either Judaism or potentially Christianity.

The one major problem with either of them being right is that there is no evidence that they are, this by the way applies to all. Another major problem with all of them, is that human history goes back for over 200,000+ years for modern humans, why would any god wait that long to reveal its truth to man and then only to a given people?

Answer 4

intrerestingly Judaism does NOT alledge to be exclusively correct.
many people tend to mistakenly assume that judaism is like christianity and claims to be the one true way... when it claims no such thing. it is A path, not the only path.

edit for below: lisa, that doesn't make any sense.
Christianity as it is now is completely contradictory to the old testament.
what makes you think that christianity, is any different than bahai in that its "revealed-ness" is based on someone with "special knowlege"? its the same thing.

God chose the jews because they accepted him. "rejection" of Jesus is 100% out of faith in GOD.
Christianity is what you get if you take Judaism and throw out everything that makes it judaism and faithful to God, and paganize it.
Judaism is Judaism.
if someone REALLY wants to find truth they will read a JEWISH bible, and understand what it means, without prejudice from Christianity, THEN read the christian one. it will show how silly some of the christian assertions are.

Answer 5

You are right, every Abrahamic religion expounds on the last then rejects much of its teachings for a new doctrine. Even Judaism is largely based on Egyptian religion, which explains the story of Exodus, as a metaphor of Judaism coming out of Egyptian religion.

None of them can be based in truth, because rejection of old law is required to maintain morality in our enlightened age, and all claim God never changes.

So either the bible is wrong and God is immoral, or the bible is wrong and God changes.

Either way the bible must be wrong, and that means the account of the Abrahamic god is flawed.

Answer 6

Abrahamic religions were never meant to stop following or change The Laws of Moses written by Yahweh Himself for as long as mankind inhabited the Earth. Yahweh got it right the first time. It is our fault for the changes we have made thinking they are outdated and no longer apply to modern times and also in thinking Jesus abolished them.

Answer 7

Its really not about religion. Its about God's revelation of Himself and His plan for humanity. He began it with Abraham and fulfilled it in Jesus Christ. The Gift of Salvation and Grace is offered. If one accepts it, then they become a part of Christ, and God's future plan for humanity. If one doesn't, then they go their merry way to their own destiny. Mankind made religions, not God.

Answer 8

Christianity does not disregard Judaism as false!

My goodness we sprang from Judaism! We believe we are Judaism fulfilled, and the other Jews will be saved in the future as well.

So God got it right from the start.

Answer 9

Who's to say Judaism isn't the right one?

People add to and change religions to suit themselves. Why do you think there are thousands of different Christian sects?

Answer 10

God founded only two religions - Judaism and Catholicism. Judaism was God's relationship with man under the original covenant. Catholicism is God's relationship with man under the New Covenant made manifest in Jesus Christ. All other religious traditions are of human origin, not divine. Obviously the newest religions are not true since God Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ, when He founded the Holy Catholic Church, said there were to be no others, and that all were to belong to the one Church He had founded.